Jack Schofield has flown as a commercial seaplane pilot along the full stretch of coastal British Columbia and throughout much of North America and the Canadian Arctic. Following his flying career he founded Aviator Magazine, a Canadian national trade publication that he recently sold after 13 years as its editor and publisher. Schofield lives in Victoria, B.C.

No Numbered Runways
Floatplane Pioneers of the West Coast

Their aircraft brought the miners, the loggers, and the fishermen, prospectors, preachers, prostitutes, misfits, and visionaries into the myriad inlets and waterways of Canada's unforgiving West Coast. These were the floatplane pilot entrepreneurs who created a succession of coastal airlines dating from the 1920s to the present day.

Jack Schofield's No Numbered Runways recounts the exciting stories of early and latter-day pilots whose floatplanes tracked the British Columbia coast. Often without benefit of charts, weather reports, radio, or navigational aids and, indeed, always without numbered runways, these ingenious aviators shaped the history of commercial flying on Canada's West Coast. This is a companion volume to Flights of a Coast Dog published by Douglas & McIntyre 1999.

Aviation History • 148 pp • 8¼ x 8¼
ISBN 1-55039-146-1 • hardcover • $29.95